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Ranking economists on the basis of many indicators: An alternative approach using RePEc data

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2011

In socio-economic sciences the RePEc network (Research Papers in Economics) has become an essential source for the gathering and the spread of both existing and new economic research. Furthermore, it is currently the largest bibliometric database in economic sciences containing 33 different...

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Competition and well-being: Does market competition make people unhappy?

Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008

-life survey data on 80,000 individuals in more than 60 countries from the World Values Survey 1997-2001. In support of our …

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Formal institutions and subjective well-being: Revisiting the cross-country evidence

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008

A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country...

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Immigration policy and self-selecting migrants

Bianchi, Milo - 2006

utilitarian world. …

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Political polarization and the size of government

Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert - 2006

We study the effect of political polarization on public spending using the dispersion of self-reported political preferences as our measure of polarization. Political polarization is strongly associated with smaller government in democratic countries, but there is no relationship between...

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Does a generous welfare state crowd out student effort? Panel data evidence from international student tests

Falch, Torberg; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008

Student achievement has been identified as an important contributor to economic growth. This paper investigates the hypothesis that redistributive government activities have a negative effect on investment in human capital using data from international comparative student achievement tests in...

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Decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical test

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2007

Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Taking account of the potential simultaneity between terror and decentralization, our results show that expenditure...

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The Swedish ICT miracle: Myth or reality

Edquist, Harald - 2004

This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for the period 1980-2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing industries for the period 1993-2000. The results show that...

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Corporate financial policies and performance around currency crises

Bris, Arturo; Koskinen, Yrjö; Pons, Vicente - 2001

Using data from 17 countries that have suffered a currency crisis, this paper studies firm-level leverage and … performance measures before and after a crisis has occurred. We show that in the years preceding a currency crisis, companies that … are expected to benefit from currency depreciations increase their leverage more than companies that are expected to be …

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The labor share: A review of theory and evidence

Schneider, Dorothee - 2011

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